CBS News reports that a Sacramento-area home security camera captured a dump truck littering the road early Tuesday morning, leaving residents stunned.
The dump truck strewn across Edmonton and Iberico roadways south of Natomas around 6:15 a.m., according to reports. Exit. The dumping occurred despite the presence of a landfill just a few miles away. Some residents are witnessing the incident for the first time and fear it will happen again.
“I just woke up to a sea of snow and trash,” Devin Flores, who lives nearby, told the magazine. “It looked like snow.”
“Cars couldn’t drive through there,” resident Lisa Flamiglio told the outlet. “It was too big.”
City workers reportedly cleaned up the trash within hours, but the suspect who dumped it has not yet been identified. Local authorities and police are investigating the incident. Surveillance video showing the illegal dumping in October 2023 helped authorities arrest the suspect in December, the newspaper reported. (Related article: A man with a TV on his head was caught on camera leaving an old TV in the front door)
Illegal dumping continues to occur in nearby communities, including Del Paso, the paper said, despite signs warning against the practice.
The City of Sacramento’s Recycling and Solid Waste (RSW) Department reportedly received 719 reports of illegal dumping in December 2023, up from 651 the previous month.
A department spokesperson confirmed to CBS News that illegal dumping is a problem, but said such incidents are not necessarily on the rise. The city is offering financial rewards to encourage residents to catch perpetrators of illegal dumping.
“This is not unique to my district,” City Councilwoman Lisa Kaplan, who represents the North Natomas area, told the publication. “This is something that happens all over the city of Sacramento. But we all continue to receive complaints about it.”
Mr Kaplan called on residents to report illegal waste dumping on the streets to the RSW, councillors, or police.
“It could be toxic waste,” Kaplan added. “It could be waste that contains needles, and that’s very disconcerting to me.”
